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...deal when he doesn't get one. As head of filmmaking for the Walt Disney Co., Katzenberg was entitled to 2% of the profits from films and TV shows produced under his watch, says a suit he filed last week against his old employer. That could amount to a Lion King's ransom, because Katzenberg's definition of profits includes much more than income from movie tickets. "By way of example," says the suit, "in 1994 Disney's video re-release of Snow White, an animated feature first released over 50 years earlier, generated gross revenues of some $800 million...
Katzenberg, who reanimated Disney by honchoing such megahits as Aladdin and The Lion King, says Disney stiffed him out of $250 million in unpaid bonuses. The high drama is Hollywood's favorite feud--between Katzenberg and Disney chairman Michael Eisner. Katzenberg stormed out in 1994 when Eisner refused to promote him to president. Last week a feisty Katzenberg was calling himself "the $250 million...
...while March may have gone out like a lamb, April has come in like a lion...
...Lane has also been hailed for such all-American straight roles as Nathan Detroit in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, and his movie parts have ranged from Michael J. Fox's brother in Life with Mikey to the voice of the Hakuna Matata-singing meerkat in The Lion King. Lane has little interest in being treated as a standard bearer for gay roles in movies. "I'm just an actor," he says. "I'm not a politician...
Meanwhile, Hillary was trying to build up the fledgling litigation practice at Rose. She, like her litigation partners Vincent Foster and Webster Hubbell, were at a disadvantage: those partners who handled corporate clients tended to get the lion's share of compensation, and the only way Hillary, Foster and Hubbell could improve their pay was to bring in more clients...